Hired

Examples

• I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If we add hired servants the State will be complete. Plato. The Republic.
• She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We had left the alehouse where we first met, and hired a room to hold our club in. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They turned the sharp corner at the bottom towards the temporary home which Clym had hired and furnished, about five miles to the eastward. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Will Haught introduced my maid to a female servant, whom he had himself hired, and whom he desired to show her mistress's apartments to my woman. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I hired them at Mr. Polonius's, in Coventry Street. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This house has necessarily been hired in my name. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And the hired footman came, with a silent step of cold servant-like disapprobation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This year we three graces, as we were called, hired an opera box for the season together. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Something came into my head which induced me to run after him, as he was going down to the Jolly Bargemen, where he had left a hired carriage. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Resolved not to lose a minute in getting to Knowlesbury, I paid my bill at the hotel, and hired a fly to take me to the town. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We hired a hansom, and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No boat would then be hired for the purpose, and no boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance is worth saving. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He hired a large room between three and four hundred feet wide. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I hired a boat directly, and we put off to her; and getting through the little vortex of confusion of which she was the centre, went on board. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I was almost sorry we had hired this man, his name was so unbearable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She hired a crossing-sweeping boy to show it her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Mas'r gen'ly hired him out. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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